Increasing depth/number of rows on terminal screen?

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MattP

I have just installed FreeBSD 13.1 on a laptop.

I have a resolution of 1920x1080 but only 32 lines are displayed which is hard to work with. I would prefer 40-48 reducing the text size.

I'm sure I'm using Framebuffer. I tried adding drm-kmod but that didn't change anything.
 
I did mean Console.

The font change worked, I have set it to Gallant which gives around 48 lines that is much more usable.

Thank you.
 
MattP said:
I'm sure I'm using Framebuffer.
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If this laptops firmware is UEFI or is running in VBE (VESA BIOS Extensions mode, check dmesg | grep 'VT(' for VT(efifb) or VT(vbefb) ), the font size can be changed from /boot/loader.conf with the screen.font setting (see loader.conf(5)). A selection of font sizes can be found in /boot/fonts.

Furthermore, if you dislike the font (Terminus), most .fnt fonts can be used instead, gzip(1)'ed, placed in /boot/fonts and renamed to one of the sizes there matching the size, then set in /boot/loader.conf as described above.
 
I am in efifb.

I downloaded freebsd-terminus fonts from a github page and u20 is the ideal size giving around 54 lines with clean/thin text.

After using vidcontrol to try some fonts I added allscreens_flags="-f ter-u20" to rc.conf.

I will keep experimenting, it is much more usable console now.
 
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